Most Recent Role: on Tales of the Unexpected
Alias Name(s): The Most Scrumdidleyumptious Storytelller
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Llandaff, Wales, UK
Birthday: 9-13-1916
Birth Name: Roald Dahl
Date of Death: 11-23-1990
Cause of Death: Leukemia
Alias Name(s): The Most Scrumdidleyumptious Storytelller
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Llandaff, Wales, UK
Birthday: 9-13-1916
Birth Name: Roald Dahl
Date of Death: 11-23-1990
Cause of Death: Leukemia
Childhood
Roald Dahl was born at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales on 13 September 1916, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg). He was named after the polar explorer Roald Amundsen, a national hero in Norway at the time.
In 1920, when Roald was four, his seven-year-old sister, Astri, died from appendicitis, then about a month...
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Friday 15 January 1988 on ITV1
Robert Sandy is an Oxford doctor, and one day a grateful patient - a Saudi Arabian prince - gives him a huge diamond. Robert and his wife Betty find that their new jewel, if they keep it, is really more of a liability than an asset - and Robert has to face up to his own lust for money. Dr...
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Ophelia Dahl is director and co-founder (with doctor Paul Farmer) of Partners in Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing health care to some of the most impoverished communities in the world. Lucy Dahl, is a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Tessa's daughter (who was the inspiration for the "helpmate" character in her grandfather's book The BFGis model and author Sophie Dahl who remembers him as “a very difficult man – very strong, very dominant ... not unlike the father of the Mitford sisters sort of roaring round the house with these very loud opinions, banning certain types - foppish boys, you know - from coming round.”
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Ophelia Dahl is director and co-founder (with doctor Paul Farmer) of Partners in Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing health care to some of the most impoverished communities in the world. Lucy Dahl, is a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Tessa's daughter (who was the inspiration for the "helpmate" character in her grandfather's book The BFGis model and author Sophie Dahl who remembers him as “a very difficult man – very strong, very dominant ... not unlike the father of the Mitford sisters sort of roaring round the house with these very loud opinions, banning certain types - foppish boys, you know - from coming round.”
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In 1965, Patricia Neal suffered three burst cerebral aneurisms while pregnant with their fifth child, Lucy. Roald took control of her rehabilitation and she eventually relearned to talk and walk. They were divorced in 1983 following a very turbulent marriage, and he subsequently married Felicity ("Liccy") Crosland, to whom he was married until his death.
(edit) When he was four months old, Theo Dahl was severely injured when his baby carriage was hit by a taxi in New York City. For a time he suffered from hydrocephalus: as a result his father became involved in the development of what became known as the "Wade-Dahl-Till" (or WDT) valve, a device to alleviate the condition.
(edit) The concept of the Golden Ticket has been parodied by a number of film and television shows, often as part of a plot that involves parodying Charlie and the Chocolate Factory itself.
For example, in The Simpsons episode "Simple Simpson", Homer tries to win a tour of a bacon factory by uncovering a Golden Ticket in packs of bacon. In "Fry and the Slurm Factory", an episode of Futurama, Fry chokes on a Golden Bottlecap, which wins his friend a tour of the Slurm Factory. Also, in the Family Guy episode "Wasted Talent", Peter tries to win a tour of Pawtucket Pat's brewery by finding one of four Silver Scrolls hidden in bottles of beer.
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(edit) When he was four months old, Theo Dahl was severely injured when his baby carriage was hit by a taxi in New York City. For a time he suffered from hydrocephalus: as a result his father became involved in the development of what became known as the "Wade-Dahl-Till" (or WDT) valve, a device to alleviate the condition.
(edit) The concept of the Golden Ticket has been parodied by a number of film and television shows, often as part of a plot that involves parodying Charlie and the Chocolate Factory itself.
For example, in The Simpsons episode "Simple Simpson", Homer tries to win a tour of a bacon factory by uncovering a Golden Ticket in packs of bacon. In "Fry and the Slurm Factory", an episode of Futurama, Fry chokes on a Golden Bottlecap, which wins his friend a tour of the Slurm Factory. Also, in the Family Guy episode "Wasted Talent", Peter tries to win a tour of Pawtucket Pat's brewery by finding one of four Silver Scrolls hidden in bottles of beer.
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Roald Dahl: A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Roald Dahl: When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them and this is even more true in children's books. I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact.
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Tales of the Unexpected
Welcome to the TV.com guide to Tales of the Unexpected . This collection of twist-in-the-tail stories of suspense, horror and black comedy (in the early seasons, all by Roald Dahl) was... more Way Out
Every week, host Roald Dahl would provide the opening and closing monologues, imparting such gems as this: "I have a maiden aunt in Norway who was actually rolled out of bed onto the floor 3 nights... more
Welcome to the TV.com guide to Tales of the Unexpected . This collection of twist-in-the-tail stories of suspense, horror and black comedy (in the early seasons, all by Roald Dahl) was... more Way Out
Every week, host Roald Dahl would provide the opening and closing monologues, imparting such gems as this: "I have a maiden aunt in Norway who was actually rolled out of bed onto the floor 3 nights... more
